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Middletown. 1997. Wesleyan University Press / University Press of New

Middletown. 1997. Wesleyan University Press / University Press of New England. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780819522436. Wesleyan Poetry Series. 127 pages. paperback. keywords: Poetry. DESCRIPTION-Loose Sugar is an alchemical manuscript disguised as a collection of poems, or vice versa. Either way, the primal materials of which this book is comprised--love, sex, adolescence, space-time, depression, post-colonialism, and sugar--are movingly and mysteriously transmuted: not into gold, but into a poet's philosopher's stone, in which language marries life. Structurally virtuosic, elaborate without being ornate, Loose Sugar is spun into series within series: each of the five sections has a dual heading (such as 'space / time' or 'time / work') in which the terms are neither in collision nor collusion, but in conversation. It's elemental sweet talk, and is Brenda Hillman's most experimental work to date, culminating in a meditation on the possibility of a native--and feminine--language. inventory #41230.